Colton Hall - Monterey, CA
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Colton Hall in Monterey, CA.
Waymark Code: WMPK14
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2015
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"Colton Hall is a government building and museum in Monterey, California, United States. It was built in the late 1840s by Walter Colton, who came to Monterey as a chaplain on Commodore Stockton's vessel and remained to become Monterey's first alcalde (mayor) in the American Period.
Colton Hall was originally a public school and government meeting place. It also hosted California's first constitutional convention in 1849.[1] California's military governor called for a constitutional convention, to be held in Monterey's Colton Hall. On September 1, delegates from ten districts arrived in Monterey to debate and write California's state first constitution. The California Constitution was ratified on October 13, voted on in November that year and sent to Congress in January 1850. San Jose was chosen as the seat for the first Legislature. (Officially, a state capital is where the legislature sits; therefore Monterey never was the capital of the State of California.)" (
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